I think if someone has mild psychosis and you can guide them back to reality-based thoughts for a second, that is compassionate and a good thing to do in the sense that it will make them feel better, but also kind of useless because the psychosis still has the same chance of progressing into severe psychosis anyway—you’re treating a symptom.
If psychosis is caused by an underlying physiological/biochemical process, wouldn’t that suggest that e.g. exposure to Leverage Research wouldn’t be a cause of it?
If being part of Leverage is causing less reality-based thoughts and nudging someone into mild psychosis, I would expect that being part of some other group could cause more reality-based thoughts and nudge someone away from mild psychosis. Why would causation be possible in one direction but not the other?
I guess another hypothesis here is that some cases are caused by social/environmental factors and others are caused by biochemical factors. If that’s true, I’d expect changing someone’s environment to be more helpful for the former sort of case.
If psychosis is caused by an underlying physiological/biochemical process, wouldn’t that suggest that e.g. exposure to Leverage Research wouldn’t be a cause of it?
If being part of Leverage is causing less reality-based thoughts and nudging someone into mild psychosis, I would expect that being part of some other group could cause more reality-based thoughts and nudge someone away from mild psychosis. Why would causation be possible in one direction but not the other?
I guess another hypothesis here is that some cases are caused by social/environmental factors and others are caused by biochemical factors. If that’s true, I’d expect changing someone’s environment to be more helpful for the former sort of case.